Veitch, the slow-drawling Vermonter who navigates the mail boat to and from the island, and Jenny, the shrieking housekeeper and cook who tends - genially if not loudly - to the needs of Hulbert's guests.Įntirely Surrounded is a slightly venomous roman à clef poking satirically at the habits of several of the Algonquin Round Table notables: Alexander Woollcott (Hulbert), Alice Duer Miller (Sterner), Dorothy Parker (Lester), Harold Ross of the New Yorker (Fitch), and Neysa McMein, popular magazine cover illustrator (O'Fallon). Red-headed Henry Cook, fresh out of Amherst and excited about working on his first book at an infamous writers' colony, arrives at the Vermont island retreat at the invitation of its owner, Thaddeus Hulbert, a boisterous, bellowing, bloviated curmudgeon, whose reputation as a novelist, columnist, and radio commentator has vaulted him to national prominence.Īdditional island guests include Clarence Fitch, the editor of a prominent New York magazine Agnes Sterner, an elegant, mature woman, also an author and close friend of Hulbert's Daisy Lester, a nationally-known nightclub singer also known by Hulbert and friends to be a heavy drinker if not watched carefully and Leith O'Fallon, an artist, writer, and liberal cause protester for whom Henry falls hard.Īmong the supporting characters are Mr. This 2017 audiobook of the 1934 fictionalized memoir, Entirely Surrounded, is narrated by author Charles Brackett's grandson, C. We are meting the second Sunday of the month, to allow for Labor Day weekend events. We will be discussing the second half of the classic 1952 novel, Giant, by Edna Ferber. Leslie and Bick's loving union endures against all odds, but a reckoning is coming and a price will have to be paid.Ī sensational and enthralling saga, Ferber masterfully captures the essence of Texas with all its wealth and excess, cruelty and prejudice, pride and violence. Upon their arrival at Bick's ranch, Leslie is confronted not only with the oppressive heat and vastness of Texas but also by the disturbing inequity between runaway riches and the poverty and racism suffered by the Mexican workers on the ranch. But for Leslie, falling in love with a Texan was a lot simpler than falling in love with Texas.
When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict arrives at the family home of sharp-witted but genteel Virginia socialite Leslie Lynnton to purchase a racehorse, the two are instantly drawn to each other. The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. “A powerful uly as big as its subject.” - Los Angeles Times
We will be discussing the first half of the classic 1952 novel, Giant, by Edna Ferber.
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